Alaska's Archdiocese: Faith in the Far North is the story of the rugged missionaries, adventurous bishops, and regular people who built the Archdiocese of Anchorage from a vast and wild land stretching over 130,000 miles across Southcentral Alaska. Carved out of the original dioceses of Juneau and Fairbanks, it stretches from the tip of the Aleutian chain to Prince William Sound and north to Talkeetna, encompassing the largest city in Alaska and some of its smallest remote villages. Paralleling the growth of the Archdiocese is the story of Alaska as it comes into its own through the early pioneer days, statehood, booms and busts of gold and oil, and the devastating earthquake of 1964. Alaska's Archdiocese, a work thirty years in the making, will appeal to history buffs and longtime parishioners, as well as anyone curious about the development of the Catholic faith in the Last Frontier.